· Private foundation
San Diego Scottish Rite Community Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of SAN DIEGO SCOTTISH RITE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k29 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALIFORNIA SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
| LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE | $20,000 |
| SAN DIEGO POLICE HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| GRAND LODGE OF CALIFORNIA | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
68 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CSCALIFORNIA SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $427k · revenue +73%
- TATHEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE7× · 2017–2024 · $140k · revenue +63%
- GLGRAND LODGE OF FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS OF CALIFORNIA6× · 2019–2024 · $34k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- SDSAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +50%
- CMCALIFORNIA MASONIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue -30%
- OEOLIVE ESCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
San Diego Junior Theatre (Junior Theatre) was incorporated in 1948 as a nonprofit corporation and is the oldest youth theatre in the nation, offering affordable camps, classes, and outreach programs for children ages 3-18; as well as six…
Since 1945, San Diego Youth Symphony (SDYS) has served as a catalyst for investing in the future of young people through joyful and transformative music-making experiences. We reach over 2,500 students and families annually throughout San…
Support elementary school education
The san diego municipal employees association (sdmea) is dedicated to being a strong and effective advocate for san diego city employees. sdmea is united to improve employees' standard of living and promote their fair treatment by…
The mission of the california state pta is to positively impact the lives of all children and families.
Changing lives through music
Provide school support for academic enrichment programs, including performing art, visual arts, science lab, computer lab and equipment, field trips, classroom supplies, physical education and library books.
To enrich the scholastic environment at Oliver Wendell Holmes Elementary located in San Diego, CA.
The mission of the california state pta is to positively impact the lives of all children and families by representing our members and empowering and supporting them with skills in advisory, leadership and communication.
The mission of the santa barbara symphony is to enrich the lives of santa barbara residents by producing the highest-quality musical experiences, accessible to the entire community, and to inspire a passion for symphonic music in the next…
Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Scottish Rite Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Jarrett Meeker Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 138 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CALIFORNIA SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds GRAND LODGE OF FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds HEDENKAMP ELEMENTARY PTA ↗
- Who funds Jarrett Meeker Foundation ↗
- Who funds WILLARD B HAGE ELEMENTARY PTA ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization San Diego Scottish Rite Community Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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